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Member State report / Art8 / 2018 / D10 / Black Sea

Report type	Member State report to Commission
MSFD Article	Art. 8 Initial assessment (and Art. 17 updates)
Report due	2018-10-15
GES Descriptor	D10 Litter
Region/subregion	Black Sea
Reported by	Member state

Member state		Bulgaria	Romania
Member state report		BLK	BLK
Marine reporting units	MRUs used	BLK-BG-AA-Coastal BLK-BG-AA-EmineMaslennos BLK-BG-AA-GalataEmine BLK-BG-AA-KaliakraGalata BLK-BG-AA-MaslennosRezovo BLK-BG-AA-OpenSea BLK-BG-AA-Shelf BLK-BG-AA-SivriburunKaliakra	BLK_RO_RG_CT BLK_RO_RG_MT01
Features	Chemical	Litter in the environment (27)	Litter in the environment (8)
Element	Artificial polymer materials		D10C1 (1)
	Cloth/textile		D10C1 (1)
	Glass/ceramics		D10C1 (1)
	Macrolitter (all)	D10C1 (14)
	Metal		D10C1 (1)
	Microlitter (all)	D10C2 (13)
	Other		D10C1 (1)
	Processed/worked wood		D10C1 (1)
	Rubber		D10C1 (1)
	Undefined		D10C1 (1)
Element2			Fishing nets
Element sources	No. of elements per level	EU (27)	EU (8)
Criteria and parameters used (number of parameters)	D10 Litter
	D10C1 Litter (excluding micro-litter) (10.1, 10.1.1, 10.1.2)	Amount on coastline (1) Amount on seabed (6) Amount on water surface (7)	Amount on coastline (1) Amount on seabed (7)
	D10C2 Micro-litter (10.1, 10.1.3)	Amount on coastline (2) Amount on seabed (5) Amount on water surface (6)
	D10C3 Litter ingested (10.1, 10.2.1)
	D10C4 Adverse effects of litter (10.2)
Threshold values	% of parameters with values (no. of parameters)	0% (0)	87% (7)
Threshold value sources	D10 Litter
	D10C1 Litter (excluding micro-litter) (10.1, 10.1.1, 10.1.2)
	D10C2 Micro-litter (10.1, 10.1.3)
	D10C3 Litter ingested (10.1, 10.2.1)
	D10C4 Adverse effects of litter (10.2)
Value achieved upper	% of parameters with values (no. of parameters)	25% (7)	100% (8)
Value achieved lower	% of parameters with values (no. of parameters)	18% (5)	100% (8)
Value unit/Value unit other (count of use per criterion)	D10 Litter
	D10C1 Litter (excluding micro-litter) (10.1, 10.1.1, 10.1.2)	items per 100 m coastline (1) number of items per square kilometre (13)	Number of items (1) gram per square metre (7)
	D10C2 Micro-litter (10.1, 10.1.3)	number of items per kilogram of dry weight (8) number of items per square metre (5)
	D10C3 Litter ingested (10.1, 10.2.1)
	D10C4 Adverse effects of litter (10.2)
Proportion threshold values	Range of % values (no. of parameters)		Range: 100-100% (7 of 8 parameters)
Proportion values achieved	Range of % values (no. of parameters)		Range: 100-100% (7 of 8 parameters)
Proportion threshold value units			% of samples achieving threshold value
Trends	No. of trends per category	Deteriorating (0 or 0.0%) Unknown (27 or 100.0%)	Deteriorating (1 or 12.5%) Unknown (7 or 87.5%)
Parameters achieved	No. of parameters per category	Not assessed (11 or 40.7%) Unknown (16 or 59.3%) Yes (0 or 0.0%)	Not assessed (0 or 0.0%) Unknown (1 or 12.5%) Yes (7 or 87.5%)
Related indicators		BLK-BG-D10C1_1 BLK-BG-D10C1_2 BLK-BG-D10C1_3 BLK-BG-D10C2_1 BLK-BG-D10C2_2 BLK-BG-D10C2_3	10.1.1 10.1.2
Criteria status	No. of criteria per category	Good (0 or 0.0%) Not assessed (10 or 37.0%) Unknown (17 or 63.0%)	Good (7 or 87.5%) Not assessed (0 or 0.0%) Unknown (1 or 12.5%)
Element status	No. of elements per category	Good (0 or 0.0%) Not assessed (10 or 37.0%) Unknown (17 or 63.0%)	Good (7 or 87.5%) Not assessed (0 or 0.0%) Unknown (1 or 12.5%)
Integration rule type for parameters			THRES (7 or 100.0%)
Integration rule description for parameters			GES achieved if percentile 75 from all categories is achieved
Integration rule type for criteria		Not relevant (25 or 92.6%) OTH (2 or 7.4%)
Integration rule description for criteria			Only one criteria applied
GES extent threshold			75.00 (7 of 7, or 100.0%)
GES extent achieved			100.00 (7 of 7, or 100.0%)
GES extent unit			Proportion of litter categories in good status (7 of 7, or 100.0%)
GES achieved	Litter in the environment	Unknown (27)	GES achieved (7) Unknown (1)
Assessment period		2012-2017 (27 or 100.0%)	2012-2017 (7 or 87.5%) 2015-2016 (1 or 12.5%)
Related pressures		Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) (25 or 50.0%) Litter and micro-litter in species (25 or 50.0%)	Litter in the environment (7 or 100.0%)
Related targets		2	1